Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...

Scientists using the James Webb telescope observed a distant exoplanet with an atmosphere of soot and diamonds, challenging all explanations.

The 24th day of the annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features dozens of galaxies in a cluster, most appearing stretched ...

Euclid launched in 2023 on a six-year mission to map the cosmos at scale, observing billions of galaxies stretching as far ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has mapped the entire sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time, revealing cosmic secrets ...

For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on a mountain top. But a ...

The Discovery That Caught Researchers Off Guard Picture this. December 21, 2019, a regular night shift at the telescope array ...

The science behind Santa’s magical ability to traverse the world in one night to deliver toys and joy may always remain a mystery.

The science behind Santa’s magical ability to traverse the world in one night to deliver toys and joy may always remain a ...

As the world's largest radio/radar telescope when it was commissioned in 1963, the Arecibo Observatory saw countless firsts, from revealing the ...

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope in Chile has released its final batch of data after 15 years — and it proves that the Hubble ...

Astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and UCLA will develop a next-generation instrument for detecting and ...